Told by	Sri Debaprosad Dey
Obtained by	Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date	28th October,2016
Place	S.A.P. Lab, Department of Instrumental Music, Rabindra Bharati University, B.T. Road Campus.
About the speaker	Renowned Harmonium Player. Accompanied many Musical Stalwarts in various Classical Music Conferences.
Tags	Amiyaranjan Bandopadhyay, 1973, Rabindra Bharati University, Beadon Street, Vivekananda Park, Raag, Vilambit, Bandish, Sam, Antara, Vistar, Amir Khan, Barhawat, Notes, Chalan, Bishnupur Gharana, Satyakinkar Bandopadhyay, Nihar Ranjan Bandopadhyay, Shantanu Bandopadhyay,  Kirana Gharana, Drut, Taan , 1978
Language	Bengali

Sri Debaprosad Dey speaks:

Verbatim:

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Verbatim by: RajeswaryGanguli Banerjee

 

 Paraphrase:

Pandit Debaprosad dey first started learning from Amiyaranjan Bandopadhyay during the days when he was a student of Rabindra Bharati University. He had taken private tuitions for the five years probably from 1973 to ’78. At that time Sangeetacharya Amiyaranjan Bandopadhyay used to live in a flat opposite to Rangana theatre and Sarkarina hall in North Kolkata. Later he also continued his talim when Amiyababu shifted to another flat in Vivekananda Park. Sangeetacharya Amiyaranjan Bandopadhyay had a very unique method of teaching specially presenting a bandish in 48 matra or time beats that many musicians are lacking of. He could knit any bandish so beautifully in a calculative way that anyone would present it without putting his effort onto it. Actually the beautifully arrangement of words lied beneath the setting of the bandishes would make the movement or chalan of the bandishes smooth in 48 matras so that the mukhra or the initial part of the bandish would come automatically in framed time cycle. It happened both in sthayi and antara of each bandish. We also used to write down those bandishes as the notation form covering whole 48 matras.

Amiyababu used to carry out the style of vistar or improvisation of a Raga like Ustad Amir Khan. In spite of being a doyen of Visnupur gharana, he always took long time on elaboration by taking each note of a raga gradually and represented it with proper embellishmentsfollowing the style of Kirana gharana much like Ustad Amir Khan. His father was a renowned Dhrupad singer, Sangeetacharya Satyakinkar Bandopadhyay who is supposed to be the last one to represent the actual form of Visnupur gharana, though his descendants like Amiyaranjan, Niharranjan or even Santanu are much closer to Kirana gharana. Amiyababu had always consciously followed the style of Kirana gharana, that’s why he could beautifully perform tanas in fast laya and even what is more astonishing that in this old age also he is still performing such magnificent tanas with ease.

Paraphrased by: Dr. Suranjita Paul

 

Picture Courtesy: Google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJKUDxfCU30

http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/ustad-and-the-world-of-gharanas/article7535908.ece

Edited & Designed: Dr. Suranjita Paul

Data processed at SAP-DRS Lab, Department of Instrumental Music, Rabindra Bharati University.